 Creative Cow's 900,000 monthly visitors do more than one thing, so we offer more than one perspective on everything. That's especially important with a subject as big as Let's start with articles on CS4: Eran Stern on A Compositor's Look at CS4, and David Roth Weiss on An Editor's Look at CS4. Then tune into the Creative Cow Podcast, where Franklin McMahon talks about the features he's working with in After Effects, Premiere Pro, OnLocation, Encore, Soundbooth, and Photoshop Extended, as well as
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 Hot on the heals of last year’s huge Adobe software release, the company has quickly turned around another batch of impressive updates in its new Creative Suite 4 line-up. Once again, these products can be purchased individually or as part of various collections for Web, video and print. Plus the all-in-one Master Collection. All CS4 products will ship by the end of Q4 2008.
I’ll focus my comments on Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium — the collection for video professionals. Its main
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 In most professional NLE's we see an overwhelming development process of mimicry and replication. As early digital editing systems (the Quantel Harry, Avid, Lightworks, Video Toaster and so on) sought to drag professional editors (often kicking and screaming) to the digital age, they invariably did so by replicating in the non-linear digital environment the concepts, paradigms and language of the linear analog world. 'Source' and 'Output' windows, 'Bins', A/B rolls, Gang monitors, Logging and so
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 Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video and audio editing applications, today announced the availability of Vegas Pro 8.0c and Vegas Pro 8.1 non-linear editing (NLE) software application updates. Vegas Pro 8.0c makes the transition from other NLE systems to Vegas Pro easier by enabling the user to customize the trimmer window to operate in an enhanced source/preview mode and provides additional support for new video cameras popular with broadcast users, as well as the n
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 Ken Stone explores the Blu-ray work flow, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), from burner purchase, installation, editing in Final Cut Pro, and burning all without leaving the Mac OS. Tiger is preferred but if you are running Leopard you will need to update Encore.
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 The Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder software allows both Mac and Windows users to play Apple ProRes files through QuickTime. Apple ProRes is a visually lossless format that provides uncompressed HD quality at SD data rates. It is an excellent choice for mastering and can easily be transcoded to distribution formats like H.264. With new support for playback on both Mac and Windows computers, Apple ProRes can also be used for review and approval of Final Cut Studio sequences.
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 To sum up … Avid Media Composer 3 is a must update for Avid users. The speed alone makes it worth the price of admission. There are a number of upgrade options from early versions of Media Composer as well as Avid Xpress Pro and Avid Xpress DV. If you choose the download option there is also a download-able bundle of the 3rd party applications that come in the boxed version for $195. That’s worth it as you get Sorenson Squeeze and Avid FX, two applications that make the suite much more worthwhil
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 Telestream, the provider of Flip4mac, Episode and FlipFactory content repurposing and workflow automation products, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of European-based Vara Software Ltd., a privately-held company. The acquisition adds the products, technologies and employees of Vara Software to those of Telestream, Inc., a privately-held US-based company. Vara Software brings successful, award-winning live production and streaming products to the Telestream product family. Th
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 Panasonic Broadcast announced today that new editing solutions from Avid Technology, Inc. offer import and native editing support for its AVC-Intra codec. The Avid® products supporting AVC-Intra include Avid Media Composer® software – Version 3.0; Avid Media Composer Mojo DX – v 3.0; Avid Media Composer Nitris® DX – v 3.0; Symphony™ Nitris DX – v 3.0; Avid NewsCutter® software – v 7.0; NewsCutter Mojo DX – v 7.0; and NewsCutter Nitris DX – v 7.0.AVC-Intra, the industry’s most advanced compressio
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 Marrying Ease and Fun Together Version 12 of Pinnacle's popular Studio editing software offers 3 levels: Pinnacle Studio ($49), Studio Plus ($99) and Studio Ultimate ($129). Registered Studio users can upgrade to Plus for only $69 and Ultimate for $99. We tested the Ultimate version.
Pinnacle Ultimate 12 has lots of features that give you a big-time editor's look and feel, using templates and presets that add filters and effects without your having to do the math - good for beginners.
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 Avid Media Composer remains the standard package for the higher end of professional digital video editing. In the past, even the software-only version came with an astronomical price to match its professional image. This has prevented the application from filtering down to smaller independent videomakers, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro has been nipping at its heels.
Following a recent change of senior management, Avid has changed its policy. As part of the company’s new strategy, the latest versio
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 Seasoned Avid editors and those new to Avid are raving about the performance and handling of Media Composer 3.0. No other NLE taps into all of the power of your computer - multiple CPU cores and the GPU processing of your graphics card - to deliver an unprecedented level of real-time editing.
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 If you're a registered user of DVD Architect Pro 4.5 software, then the new 5 upgrade is yours free. And that means that you can now have Blu-ray Disc™ authoring and burning for what amounts to a pretty darned affordable price.
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 A complete, fully integrated hardware/software solution, PYRO A/V Link with Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 provides the best value and the best components for capturing, editing and exporting both analog and digital video in real time. PYRO AV Link with Premiere Elements 4.0 includes PYRO AV Link, an external box that connects to your computer via FireWire. With Composite, S-Video and Component connectors, capture video from any source.
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The Motu V4HD is the successor to their award-winning V3HD FireWire video I/O and converter for Mac and Windows. The V4HD provides all the same features as the V3HD along with additional new features, including support for full-raster ProRes workflow with Final Cut Pro.
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